In the past I've shown how to use Ant and the JWSC task to build a JAX-WS web service, well I've moved onto Maven now and started to use the Oracle WebLogic Maven plugin to build services. This is an example on how to build a JAX-WS web service using that plugin, specifically the wsgen goal.

It should be noted that even though the plugin still provides the ws-jwsc goal, it has been deprecated and should not be used. I found that ws-jwsc was full of bugs when I used it in the past, wsgen is much more reliable.

Since I am using Maven, I have a standard folder structure for my service, which looks like this...

Below is the configuration for the plugin. The most significant part is on line 15 where I specify the service endpoint interface (SEI), which is my web service implementation class.

Maven Plugin

<plugin>

<groupId>com.oracle.weblogic</groupId>

<artifactId>weblogic-maven-plugin</artifactId>

<version>12.2.1-0-0</version>

<executions>

<execution>

<id>wsgen</id>

<phase>process-classes</phase>

<goals>

<goal>wsgen</goal>

</goals>

<configuration>

<keep>false</keep>

<protocol>Xsoap1.2</protocol>

<sei>net.igorkromin.WsExampleImpl</sei>

<genWsdl>false</genWsdl>

</configuration>

</execution>

</executions>

</plugin>

That's pretty much all there is to it. As long as you package your project as a WAR file, Maven takes care of the rest.

Once you run 'mvn clean package', you will get a target/WsExample-1.0.war file which can be deployed to WebLogic. Once deployed the WSDL should be accessible at a URL similar to: http://localhost:7001/WsExample-1.0/WsExample?wsdl

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